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After two Soviet-made limpet bombs exploded last March in the women's toilet of Johannesburg's police headquarters, police arrested Marion Sparg, 28, a former reporter for the Johannesburg Sunday Times. She confessed to the bombing, which miraculously killed no one, and to planting explosive devices in two other police stations...
...series of terrorist acts that have afflicted the city since June 15, the eve of the anniversary of the Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court in downtown Johannesburg. Bomb-disposal experts carried the device to the lawn outside the building, where it was detonated, blowing out plate-glass windows and buckling leaded glass in one courtroom...
...government marshaled an imposing display of security forces, including 8,000 reinforcements flown in from around the country to patrol the city's waterways and narrow streets. Venetians were sometimes startled to see navy frogmen emerging from the littered green waters of the canals after periodic searches for limpet mines...
...audacious act of sabotage in South Africa's history. In a series of coordinated nighttime raids against petroleum complexes in the small oil towns of Sasolburg and Secunda, black nationalist guerrillas cut their way through chain-link fences surrounding two adjoining refineries in Sasolburg and then planted several limpet mines with expert precision. The explosions destroyed a total of eight fuel storage tanks and set off towering fires that raged for nearly two days. A third installation at Secunda, 90 miles east of Johannesburg, was rocked by seven bomb blasts but suffered only limited damage...
...Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). Don Knotts is a wishy-washy bookkeeper who becomes a fish. This sounds dumb, but it isn't half bad. The animated scenes of Knotts as the fish are better than Disney, and the plot (the Navy tries to use him to bomb enemy subs but he has cold fins about it) is pretty daring for a kid's film. Ch. 56, 12 noon. Color, 2 hours...